Sankarea Blog Posts

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Are you into zombies? I mean, really into them? Do you fantasize about an undead girlfriend, icy cold and fresh from the grave? Well, you’re in [...]
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I’m rather sad at the state of affairs on this section. Hardly a single mention of nano.RIPE! I’m here to correct this wrong, to shine light in this myriad of darkness and to open your ear holes to [...]
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In North America, Sankarea has had a fairly spotty history in North America. The series first shipped to retailers in 2013 in a Blu-Ray/DVD combo [...]
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The final volume of zombie romance story, Sankarea, is out now - the 11th book of the series brings a conclusion with every element necessary and expected of an excessively dramatic shounen sob [...]
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Zombie love story, Sankarea, finally concludes in the October 2014 issue of shounen manga magazine, "Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine" - it ends with 11 increasingly less entertaining volumes, and one [...]
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And the winner of the Sankarea manga giveaway is…inter4ever! As the winner, inter4ever will be receiving the first volume of Mitsuru Hattori’s Sankarea: Undying Love as published by Kodansha Comics. Since Hallowe’en falls at the end of October, I thought it was thematically appropriate to offer a zombie manga. I asked that entrants tell me […]
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The end of October approaches as does Hallowe’en, so I thought it would be appropriate to feature a horror manga for this month’s giveaway. As such, this month you all will have a chance to win a copy of the first volume of Mitsuru Hattori’s Sankarea: Undying Love as published by Kodansha Comics in English, […]
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Title: Sankarea Genre: Romance, Comedy, Supernatural Publisher: Kodansha Artist: Mitsuru Hattori Serialized in: Bessatsu Shonen Magazine Translator: Lindsey Akashi Full disclosure: I read Mitsuru Hattori’s Sankarea manga knowing what happens for the early part of it because I watched the anime in Spring 2012. And after reading the manga version of it, the anime expanded [...]
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Sankarea's eighth manga volume brings a whole series of illicit posters along with it - revealing that somewhere in the midst of it, this story of the undead has transitioned over into a paltry cabaret show.
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Sankarea's eighth manga volume makes it seem the series has forgotten all about zombies and become more intrigued with yuri instead - the book contains a sizable helping of close female interactions in the bath.
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By Mitsuru Hattori. Released in Japan as “Sankarea” by Kodansha, serialized in the magazine Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. Released in North America by Kodansha Comics. I have been running into the same sort of problem lately with many new manga, even though most of them are completely different on the face of it. They all seem [...]
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This extra episode, curiously not available until after episode “14″, is a “The Story So Far” as told by Babu the cat (who we’ve never heard talk before, let alone narrate), and an exercise in slice-of-life – or slice-of-undead, as it were. Babu enjoys his only slightly-different cat life, while Rea enjoys her new-found freedom [...]
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With Dan’ichiro away, Rea’s stepmother Aria live alone in the house, eating little, drinking much, getting driven to Rea’s school where she is headmistress, and generally being bored out of her mind. Meanwhile, Mero finds an unconscious girl under the temple and brings her in. The girl won’t talk but seems to have it in [...]
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Let’s keep up the good work and continue on the anime that you guys chose for me. This time, I have to admit I was pretty happy there was Sankarea on the list because it had been on my “On Hold” list since forever and I never had the motivation to finish it.(Though I don’t [...]
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Title: Sankarea Genre: Comedy, Romance Rating: 7.2/10 Summary: Chihiro Furuya, who loves zombies above all else, meets the sweet girl Rea Sanka by chance, and he ropes her into “resurrecting” his dead cat. But then Rea claims she actually has become a zombie, and asks him to take responsibility for it. Review: Sankarea was probably [...]
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Even for a series about zombies, Sankarea's seventh manga volume gets quite ridiculous - what was once a romantic slice of life turns into a Resident Evil reminiscent jungle hunting monster conspiracy of some sort.
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